Paul, they fit into the catagory of not tipping at all and you actually pried a buck out of their hands. You should be proud of yourself for an accomplishment like that!:-)
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I guess this is where I'm supposed to step in and stick up for the younger fellas. Tell the old farts they're full of it. My generation is not what you think it is. We see what is, we get it, and we don't fall for the same line of BS and horsepucky you did.

Sorry...Can't.

I don't relate. I see a big gap in who is and who's going to be. I don't like it.

Customer relatons, the way people treat others, the lack of conviction....etc.

Scoff, BS, or lament all you wish, but it's true. It's horseshit, this philosophy I'm hearing about how customers SHOULD be treated. It's echoed on other threads and other opinions...

Ever hear of influencing a person? Self sacrifice? Being an examle to people who AREN'T as considerate as you? Perhaps you putting up with their BS and STILL serving them a nice hot meal MIGHT, just MIGHT, change the way they treat the next guy.
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Great point Brad.. It's like road rage. Cutting someone off because they cut you off doesn't solve anything. It might make you feel good for a second, but it just leads to more road rage.

Giving poor service to these people is just reinforcing the fact to them that they shouldn't have to tip good, because they always get crappy service anyway. What if you gave crappy service to someone and they left you a big tip because they believed it was the right thing to do? How would you make that up? Would you expect a good tip next time they visit and sit in your section?
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Bad example......

Perhaps that's where Above_Average set's me straight...:-)
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:-)
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Not sleeping well?
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No, mmaddog's wife won't ****ing go home already. :-)





:-)
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You mean to tell me that some people on the Planet aren't the most courteous drivers? Say it isn't so! :-) :-)
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Actually, I'm an azzhole...

This thread just happened to catch me when I was feeling maudlin....:-)
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I tip if my waiter is nice and fills my drink up and isnt a pest, i will tip 20% or better but if the waiter thanks that they should get a tip just because and gives bad service oh no they will not get a tip of 20% maybe like 5%. Its your job to serve no one made you take that job of say $2.50 an hour and tips? you want a tip you do the job and you will get one 100% of the time and i am not saying you should kiss peoples a$$, if the place is busy and i can see that i understand slow service but not no service.
some not all people in the restraunt service excpect a tip as soon as you sit down at there table, i eat at chillis alot and they know me there and still if i get good SVC a good TIP bad SVC little TIP.


Oh well its like alot of people say you wont know how they fill until you walk a mile in there shoes. a friend of mine says if most people that were rude to retail and restraunt people every worked in there industry wouldnt be. oh well remember you still have a job and you wake up every morning and are alive.





CASHMAN.
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:-) I was out of line, guy just struck a nerve I don't make a habit out of letting people on a puter piss me off BTW make that some Hag or George Jones :-)
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Eddie Bauer's gave me full replacement value on a jacket (whose waistband had been ruined by a dry-cleaner) even though I had bought the item a few years before and on sale. That impressed me.

Back around that same time, I was the administrator of my department's computer network and did a lot of the repairs and upgrades myself. I called AT&T and asked for a price for an OEM 40Mb hard-drive for one of their PCs and it was so ludicrously high ($750 or so when bigger hard-disks were running about $1/Mb) that it's in the running as my worst retail experience, even though I didn't buy it and all it did was make me laugh into the telephone. :-)
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At the Moorings restraunt on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, I called the waitress over and showed her the fly in my iced tea. She stuck her finger in the glass, flicked the fly onto the floor, and waddled away. I called her back and asked for another glass. She took the glass through the swinging doors to the kitchen, turned around, and brought me the same glass.
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